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Aggressor   /əgrˈɛsər/   Listen
Aggressor

noun
1.
Someone who attacks.  Synonyms: assailant, assaulter, attacker.
2.
A confident assertive person who acts as instigator.






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"Aggressor" Quotes from Famous Books



... train, avoided me, lied to Lady Angela and myself this morning, and had exactly the sort of wounds which I had inflicted upon that unknown assailant who attacked me in the darkness. If circumstantial evidence went for anything, Ray himself had been my aggressor. ...
— The Betrayal • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... for instance as an unjust aggression upon the territory we own, or even live upon; an attack on the national honour, or a reckless disregard of rights sanctioned by treaty or international usage. Were arbitration in such cases even admissible, we may conceive the would-be aggressor unwilling to have recourse to it, or possibly to abide by its award. What is a government ...
— Morality as a Religion - An exposition of some first principles • W. R. Washington Sullivan

... contests with the citizens, who compelled him, in 1641, to grant them a municipal council, composed of twelve of the most prominent residents of New Amsterdam, which council he arbitrarily dissolved at the first opportunity. He also stirred up a war with the Indians, in which he was the principal aggressor. This war brought great loss and suffering upon the province, and came near ruining it. Kieft, alarmed at the results of his folly, appointed a new municipal council of eight members, and this council at once demanded of the States General of Holland ...
— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe

... the cause himself or have it disposed of by a deputy acting in his name. The regular form of satisfaction for such an injury was a compromise arranged between the injurer and the injured; the state only interfered supplementarily, when the aggressor did not satisfy the party aggrieved by an adequate expiation (-poena-), when any one had his property detained or his just demand was ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... consternation. His arm had fallen to his side, and he was saying slowly, "Who the deuce are you? How the deuce d'you know where I've been?" when the man who sat before him suddenly pulled his hand from under the table and covered his aggressor with ...
— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace


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